CBS Sports announced highlights of its 2010 college football season featuring the Southeastern Conference, which include Florida-Tennessee, a prime-time doubleheader the first weekend of October and a Notre Dame game.CBS Sports serves as the exclusive national network broadcaster of SEC home games and has first choice of available games each week for which will be the "Game of the Week." As part of its 15-year deal with the conference, CBS also carries the SEC Championship Game.
This marks the second year of the agreement and things such as Florida-Tennessee and Georgia-Florida represent obvious choices long before the season begins.
Notre Dame appears on the CBS schedule because the Notre Dame-Navy matchup is a Navy home game (although it will be played at New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey). Notre Dame, with all it's home games broadcast by NBC and most road games then picked up by ABC/ESPN, last appeared in a regular season game televised by CBS in 2008. That game was against Navy as well.
Here's a look at the schedule CBS announced (all games are Saturdays unless noted otherwise):
- Sept. 18 -- Florida at Tennessee, 3:30 p.m.
- Oct. 2 -- Doubleheader, 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
- Oct. 23 -- Notre Dame vs. Navy, Noon
- Oct. 30 -- Georgia vs. Florida, 3:30 p.m.
- Nov. 13 -- Doubleheader, Noon and 3:30 p.m.
- Dec. 4 -- SEC Championship Game, 4 p.m.
- Dec. 11 -- Army vs. Navy, 2:30 p.m.
- Friday, Dec. 31 -- Sun Bowl, 2 p.m.